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VOL. XXII. NO 15.
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAYNOVEMBER 19, 1904
TERMS $1.00 PER YEAR
Do yon need hogs? A nice bunch, about 35 head, will be sold in Vienna next Saturday
A prenter is wanted in
this office by Dec 1. j
He who follows the plow does
well; but he who follows a good ex
ample also does better, for he will
lay his life furrows straight and
smooth and will reap a noh harvest
in due time.
Please remember that Chrictmas
is only one month off. Time to be
gin saving for early btiying. Also
to begin the early planning for the
late buying that oomes with every
Christmas.
There is a man in Hampton, N.
H., who wore a straw hat every day
last winter, and who says that he is
going to do the same this winter,
He believes in keeping the head cool
and the feet warm.
England’s per capita wealth is
said to be $210, ahd yet there are
hundreds of thousands of people in
England who have to work for five
years to earn as muoh money as that.
Of all the people who are jeered
and made fun of it is the raother-in-
law. Now there are thousands of
mothers-in-law who are just as good
as they oan be, but the faultlieB with
the son-in-law or perhaps the little
wife.
To restore linoleum that has lost
its freshness, first clean it and dry
it. Melt a little ordinary glue in a
pint of water, and at night go over
the linoleum with a flannel that has
been dipped in the gluewater. Next
morning the oilcloth will have a
fine, hard gloss.
There are something like 15,000,'-
000 cigar boxes used ii the United
States annually. The material out
of which the best quality of cigar
boxes are made oome principally
from Cuba and is known as Spanish
cedar.
W hen worried by impending trou
bleor by bad mistakes of tongue or
hand, cast it all ont of the mind at
night. Resolutely set yourself to
get a night.of solid sleep; then bring
a fresh brain to bear upon it, and
the difficulty will prove easy of so
lution.
The “don’t care’’ spirit character
izes the efforts of too many of the
rising generation. Business men are
looking for boys with energy and de
termination. Carelessness and dif
ference have already their fn'l rep
resentation in'the list of failures,
but if you are not careful yon will
be found in this same class. Exam
ine yourself and if you find that you
are a candidate for membership, and
have only drifted into it unawares,
you should turn your oourse and
keep a watchful eye to see that you
do not get in beyond redemption.
Very little hone is held out/ora boy
who goes at everything in a careless
way. The future is bright for one
who is willing and not afraid of
work.
John D. Rookefeller. rated as the
richest man in the world, if not the
richest man the world has ever
known, was initiated a few days
since as -a member of the young
men's club of the Euclid Avenne
Baptjfit church in Cleveland. Rock
efeli'er took occasion to say: “For
ty Vighi years ago I walked the
streets of this city a poor hoy with
out a job. I wanted work and I look
ed earnestly for it. I got a little job
.and I worked hard and kept that lit
tle job. That is the secret of all my
success. 1-have worked hard all my
life and I have suoceeded in keeping
my job."
WOMAN’S COLUMN.
The corset trust is the latest.
Somebody will get squeezed.
Don’t wear high, unyielding col
lars. They were not intended for
pretty nooks.
In London the ladies use parasols
for self defense. What’s the matter
with the long hat pm?
It is said that every mother Bhould
spend a few minutes eaoh day play
ing with her babies.
The tiny chains of habit are sel
dom felt until they are too strong to
bo broken.
To prevent stockings wearing at
the heels paste a piooe of velvet iu
the baoks of tbs shoes.
It is said that keeping busy will
help to keep us young. Well, may
be that is true, but there is a limit.
Occasionally give your oonsoieuoe
a dash of freedom, but see that it is
not roaming when needed at home.
Pleasure and happiness depeid
bo muoh more upon our inner selves
than on any outward surroundings
ot influences.
Women would do well to remem
ber that smartness is one of the
greatest aids to those who do not
possess actual beauty
One of the most prominent of oil
magnates in LosAngeles is a woman
who is said to control about half the
whole product.
It is tomorrow, that dreadful to
morrow, that whitenB the hairs,
bunds the shoulders and brings the
lines between the brows.
The whole number of patents
granted in the United States to date
is 730,046, Of this number, about
13,000 have been issued to women.
Don’t think it enough to he a
beauty; iu order to approach perfec
tion a woman should try to improve
herself morally and intellectually,
as well as physically.
The difference in size between the
waist and bust-the measurement be
ing taken just under -the arms-in
the well-formed woman shonld be
from eight to ten inches.
Bear all burdens that come to. you
as patiently and uncomplainingly as
you oan, but do not carry any more
than a proper proportion of those be
longing to your neighbors.
Don’t grow old; associate with
young folks; have a good time every
day; laugh; don’t worry; don’t think
you aregrowiugold and you will be
surprised how long you keep young!
Don’t let the children play with
matches, nor leave matches around.
Several women have been fatally
burned by stepping on matches alid
thus catching t.icir skirts on fire.h
If yon think a little primping
would improve yonr loons and un
doubtedly it wo aid why primp,
Don’t fail. You’ll feel better and
your husband will be pleased with
the change. .. .,
Where do you keep the medicine
yon have on band? •• A good idea is
to have ft box with several shelves
nailed upon the wall and and in this
keep all the raedioine you cau with a
label on each bottle.
The woman who marries a m.m
‘jnst to get the best of some other
girl hasn't sense enough to come in
out of ahairstbrm. Matrimony is a
little more serious matter than tea
fighta and bargain hubbubs.
FACTS IN GENERAL.
Sound moves 743 miles por hour.
Hawks oan fly 1{>0 miles an hour.
Telephones were invented in 1861
Man's heart beats 92,160 times a
day.
The largest Island in the world is
Australia.
Atlantio steamships are becoming
longer and larger.
Do one thing at a time. Don’t try
to po everything at ouoe.
In 1775 there were oply ,27 news
papers published in the if. S.
During the raoing season over
$1,000,000 a day is waged on horses.
A sign on a building in Hazleton,
Pa., says: “Clothes repaired in
the rear. ”
King Edward has of late taken to
smoking cigarettes somewhat exten
sively.
A needle passes through eighty
operations in the oourse of manufac
ture.
i
Russel Sage has begun eating five
meals a day, bat it is top late, qow,
to die poor;
The Amerioan minister to Sweden
is given oredit for being the best
shot in that country.
Tho highest fall of water in the
world is that <ff Yoscmito in Cali
fornia, being 2,550 feet.
“Monkey Wrenoh’’is not the cor
rect name, but- Monoky, Charles
Monoky being tho inventor.
An Egyptian mummy that passed
through a Swiss austom-house re
cently was classed as “dried meat.”
The cork leg trust is going to raise
prices, and the man who has neglec
ted to get hi* cork leg is up a stump.
Some of the trusts seem to be hav
ing pretty pear as muoh trouble now
a-days as they have given the rest
of us.
According to latest market report
whiskey has “riz," but there is
enough of it going down to float a
gunboat.
THE BUS? WORLD;
It is oaloulated that the loss to tho
government through the postoffioo
department scandal will not exoeed
half a million dollars.
The postal convention between
this country and Cuba went into ef-
fflot on October, 9th. A , n. n
now be sent to Cuba for two ; oentB
A single Amprioan railroad sys
tem, the Pennsylvania, carries inoro
freight than all ( the lines . combined
in agjr other nation in the world.
It appears that wo are to lose two
inlands by tho Alaskan boundary
settlement. A few years ago the
lot* of two islands might have oomo
as a hardship, but what daps an is-
land o? two more or less amount to
now?
Freight pays the bills. This is
truer pi this country than of any
other,. Freight revenue is over a
billion dollars a year, passenger re-
eeiptf about $350,000,000. o«r
average passenger train oarrios only
forty-jwopeople.
The Uqited States government has
fifty buildings, mostly postoffioes,
under oonBtruotion at present, with
about threo times as many as that
authorized. Tho cost of tho build
ings now uncompleted will bo almost
as much as tho total annual expend
iture of the government fifty years
ago, when the office of supervising
architeot was established.
Germany is not so slow as she is
often credited with being. She holds
the ocean stoainshi p record for speed
sustained all the way across the At
lantio, and a Gorman electric motor
has made the fastest time ever known
on an electric railway. Tho latest
great international automobile race
was won by a German maohiue, and
no other automobile has made bet
ter timo in any tests than that Ger
man motor.
The young women of Howard,' S.
D., have adopted a new fad that cer-
t‘inly deserves a wider attention:
They have taken under their protec
tion yonug men of tho town who are
| uot yet out their teens and affeut
It is only a matter of time until: to escort them instead of consider
they will bo using harness horses to [mg them as escorts. They do this,
pico automobiles,
the horse.
Seamen' on native river craft in
Ohinaget $3 a month, on seagojpg
Chinese vessels, $9. They furnish
their own food.
Perhaps wo have misunderstood
the objects of the meat trust. Scien
tists for a long time have been tell-
iug-us that we eat too much.
If the shrinkage continues we may
expect to find United States Steel
stock listed among the Friday bar-
bains at the department stores.
The greatest searchlight in the
worid is one just completed by
Scbiokert, of Nuremburg, Germany
which has 316,000,000 oandle power
The Sahara desert in Northern Af
rica is the largest m thl world. Its
length is 3,000 miles and breadth
900 miles.
. Dr. Morris Bailey, of Titusville,
Pa., oelebrated his eighty-filth birth
day by destroying his account bonjes
Qn the books was $42,000, which
flis patients owed him.
It is admitted by competent judgea
that the people of this country are
annually swindled out of $100,000,
000 by the various so-called “get-
8 rioh quick" and “safe-investment 1
harpers. .^J,
You oan’t down | they olaim, to keep the boys out; of
evil ways. The girls express them
selves as well satisfied with results
thui far, while thoir proteges are
highly amused by liie motherly de
votion shown them by the ydung wo
men.
Indiau territory and Oklahoma
will send a joint committee, to con-
gress this coming winter .to work
jointly for statehood. They will
ask that the two bo admitted as one
state. Some people in Oklamoma
want that territory admitted, leaving
Indian Territory to be absorbed,
gradually, at a later date. But that
foes not suit Indian Territory, and
any effort to promote suoh a plan
wiii resi.lt in ar-bppn and.bitter fight
against Oklahoma statehood.
It appears now that the big ques
tion that will come before the next
congress will be the extentionof the
rural mail routes. By the end of
the year 25,000 new routes will be
in operation and for their mainten
ance an increased appropriation
amounting to $3,000,000 will be re
quired, while other costs incident to
starting them will have to be met.
It' is figured that the department will
be compelled to ask congress for an
^appropriation of at least $20,000,-
1030 for this service alone.
ON THE FARM.
In Groeoo they drive the poultry
to market.
In Europe there are no farm pa-
pers of large circulation.
In farming or any other business
it is hotter to be branded a hustler
than a mossback.
Many a person puts the money in
to fanoy buildings and furnishings
for his hen-house that ought to go
into the poultry.
A maohiue has been invented
whioh will separate seed oorn and
place the grains of various aizeB in
soparato apartments.
Keeping up tjie feed' and keeping
down the lioe, will go a long way to
wn d keeping up tho profits from
the poultry end of the farm.
First make a few hens pay you a
profit, then start the large flook.
Many a man has made a failure by
starting on too large a scale.
A big flood is not without some
redeeming featares. Down in Mis
souri it is said the floods have wash
ed away the germs of hog oholera.
Of the five million farms in tlie
United States, three million produoe
oorn. The average cost of growing
an acre of oorn in America is $5.
In training a farm horse it will be
well to boar in mind that the walk
1b tho most important gait. The
hor e does more walking than any
other gait.
This world isn’t all work, not
even on a farm. Just stop and think
that you oannat take anything with
you when you die. Get some enjoy
ment.out of life,
American fruits now control the
markets in England and Germany,
and the value of tho probable sales
in Europe this season will aggregate
$10,000,000.
Good milk is most nutritions.and
flesh-forming.' A glass of hot milk
taken the last thing at night will
induce Sleep. Milk should always
be taken slowly.
Gan you think of anyspoton earth
more near toheaven than the well-
kept farm, or a man and woman who
ought to be happier than tho owners
of that farm, with their boys and
girls around them?
The manure produced by one pig
in a year is worth about twelve dol
lars for fertilizing purposes, henoo
the need of removing this to a suit
able yard or shed where its fertiliz
ing value will not be wasted.
When you go to chop a chicken’s
head off try this plan: Drive two
nails into a block jnst far enough
apart to put tho neck of tho fowl,
but not large enough to let the head
Hlidc through. You can then do the
work much easier.
Hundred of electricians arc at this
moment striving to construct lamps
in which nothing is consumed save
the electrical energy applied to them
—lamps that have the radiance of
the sun and the coldness of the moon.
A man will run as fast as he oan
to cross a railway track in front of
a train. Then he will watch it till
it goes out of sight. Then he will
walk leisurely away. He seems to
be all right, and probably is. To is
is a man. v
How to keep the boys and girls on
the farm is a question many a fath
er and mother worry over. Teao
them everything 'you can, let them
boss a little and take an interest in
the affairs. Have good literature for
them to reed.' Heke heme pleeeent.
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